Secular score gains on Raven’s Progressive Matrices in a population of Polish adolescents

• Authors: Ewa Witkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents findings on secular score gains in Raven’s Progressive Matrices during six decades (1948- 2009) in Polish adolescents. Seven groups are being compared, comprising of 20, 490 subjects in total. The representative groups examined in 2000 (N=1,331) and 2009 (N=3,650) are those of special interest as they are the most numerous and allowing formal means comparison using standard test for comparison of means and Welch’s test. Possible causes for the noted effect are being discussed, with special emphasis on the economic growth and its implications - such as improved nutrition, education changes, growth of adolescent’s well-being and child upbringing practices.

Keywords

EN

Flynn effect; Flynn-Runquist effect; intelligence; Raven’s Progressive Matrices variation

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 142-146

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-06-17

Contributors

author

Ewa Witkowska

• The Maria Grzegorzewska, Academy of Special Education, Applied Psychology Institute, 02-353 Warsaw, Poland, ul. Szczęśliwicka 40

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ppb-2014-0019